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Re:Linus Torvalds Back in Charge of Linux by DoreenMichele on Tuesday October 23, 2018 @05:01AM (#18281848)
That's actually pretty typical of crusaders, IME. Most of them don't actually want to end the Lord of the Flies pecking order. They just want to shift around who is on top crapping on people and who is getting crapped on. Generally speaking, they want to do the crapping (along with some highly arbitrary set of "their people") and whomever currently has privilege they would like to see getting crapped on.

Their "vision" is a form of revenge fantasy, basically, not actually a better world.

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Re:Linus Torvalds Back in Charge of Linux by TheSpiceIsLife on Tuesday October 23, 2018 @06:23AM (#18282178)
This is where it's at.

Also this ... palaver about equality is, well, nonsense simply because, well, people, on the whole, can't be nice.

Not in any longterm, meaningful way.

Make no mistake, if the current system where replaced tomorrow by one dreamed up by some other set of people, it would come with it's own complete set of bugs.

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Re:Linus Torvalds Back in Charge of Linux by rs23296008n1 on Wednesday October 24, 2018 @08:26PM (#18297657)
People can easily be nice. But they are afraid. Being nice is seen as being weak and vulnerable in this culture and several others. The societies as a whole are sick and twisted away from basic humility and useful cooperation.
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